Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the diplomats were preparing to sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco last week, an old soldier rose 2,650 miles away to make a speech. Douglas MacArthur, chief architect of peace in Japan, had not been invited to the signing, instead was appearing before 10,000 cheering Ohioans in Cleveland. But the treaty was not uppermost in Douglas MacArthur's mind that night. Though he took due note of Japan's recovery and return to sovereignty, and though he insisted that he had "neither partisan affiliation nor . . . political purpose," the burden of his message...
Coventrians, who had first look at the entries, expressed their contempt in a colorful string of nicknames: "the grand piano," "the Kremlin," "the pork pie," "the egg-in-a-cup," "the beehive." Even the winning entry, a conservatively modern stone, glass, concrete and steel structure by Scottish Architect Basil Spence, was compared unenthusiastically to a cinema, a factory and a block of flats...
Located in the middle part of the building and occupying the space of both second and third floors, the chapel was the most famous part of University Hall. The whole building was designed by Charles Bulfinch, class of 1781 and the greatest American architect of the times, but utility and the budget limited him through most of the job. In the chapel he had a free hand and the result was one of his finest creations, according to the word of contemporary experts...
...hope . . . that the Russians are [not] sending a wrecking crew . . ." said John Foster Dulles, the treaty's chief architect. Next day in Moscow, the U.S. Embassy delivered a stiff little note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Chief point: the San Francisco party "is not a conference to reopen negotiations on the terms of peace." Its proper business will be a final explanation of the treaty, then the signing...
...seventh Duke of Wellington is an unstuffy former diplomat and minor architect, onetime Surveyor of the King's Works of Art (1936-43) and a man who likes to keep the records straight about his most famous ancestor. As a close student of his tough, gunpowdery great-grandfather, he came to doubt that the first Duke ever uttered the sonorous bit of snobbery so dear to generations of British orators: "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." So last month he did what any Englishman would do under the circumstances: he wrote a letter...